Parse date type as local time

[benighted]

Resolves issue #510, but is a breaking change. Handle with care 😄
Updated failing test case as well.

[jrf0110]

👍 Woot!

[brianc]

Thank you so much @benighted

Sorry for the delay here - going to try to get pg @ 3.0 out asap

[alejandrolsca]

@brianc is there a way to set the timezone in node-postgres? I tried to find it in the documentation without success, i found an environment variable PGTZ here https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-envars.html but i had not success trying to guess the configuration in the pool connection i.e.
const pool = new Pool({ connectionString: '......', timezone: 'America/Chihuahua' })
also tried to set the timezone with a query as follows
await client.query("SET timezone = 'America/Chihuahua';")
but didn't worked, it works in the DBMS(navicat in this case)
in fact what im trying to do is to set the timezone dynamically(i need it at the client/query level not at global level), so the query will be at the end as follows
await client.query("SET timezone = $1;")

can you give me start point to solve this issue, maybe im not looking in the right place. Thanks in advance for your support

[jrf0110]

@alejandrolsca generally you'd use something like at time zone $1 in your queries:

-- Display the timestamp in the timezone of the object
select
  orders.created_at at time zone orders.timezone
from orders

[alejandrolsca]

@ jrf0110 I was aware of that way of doing it, so its not recommended to use SET timezone .....? at this moment looks like a good solution, but in the near future could i have some problems? scalability issues? just wonder, also still wondering why SET timezone .... did not work, even if you call that query in node postgres it gets overriden by postgres.conf?

[jrf0110]

I believe SET timezone will simply set the timezone the database is in (which will affect how dates are created). Try something like:

set timezone = 'America/Chicago';
select now();

[alejandrolsca]

@jrf0110 well the problem here is that it doesn't work in node-postgres, at least not for me, if I execute those queries in DBMS it works, but not by doing it with node-postgres library as follows:
client.query("SET timezone = 'America/Chihuahua';");
client.query("My query with dates here");